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Peace Institute Annual Report 2003 Peace Institute Metelkova ulica 6 SI - 1000 Ljubljana Phone: +386 1 234 77 20 Fax: +386 1 234 77 22 Email: [email protected] www.mirovni-institut.si Published: Ljubljana, March 2004 2 Contents: CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL STUDIES............................................................. 5 Contemporary Citizenship: Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion (Slovenia and the transition states of Central and Eastern Europe)................................................................6 Nation-State and Xenophobia ........................................................................................... 11 Inclusion of Immigrants into New Societies Utilizing the Ethics of Care. Possibilities of Transition from the Fortress Europe to an Open Europe................................................. 14 Research on Unaccompanied Minors – Report for Slovenia .......................................... 18 Intolerance Monitor............................................................................................................ 21 Workers' Punk University ................................................................................................... 24 Conflict Resolution in the Community (REKOS) ............................................................... 30 The Peace Institute Forum................................................................................................. 33 CENTER FOR CIVIL SOCIETY................................................................................................. 36 Metelkova Information Network........................................................................................ 40 Politike Edition.................................................................................................................... 43 Monitoring Group of Immigrants' and Aliens' Legislation................................................ 47 Police and Human Rights................................................................................................... 51 Publications on Roma Rights............................................................................................. 54 CENTER FOR CULTURAL POLICY.......................................................................................... 57 Reading Cultures in the Newly Established Publishing Conditions: empirical findings, analysis of the situation and recommendations for the development of Slovene publishing policies.............................................................................................................. 59 Cultural Education.............................................................................................................. 62 CENTER FOR GENDER AND POLITICS.................................................................................. 65 Policy Frames and Implementation Problems – the Case of Gender Mainstreaming .. 66 Sociological Conceptual Analysis of Family Policies in Slovenia from the Perspective of Social Change – postdoctoral project............................................................................... 69 Family and Social Contexts of Gay and Lesbian Lifestyles in Slovenia and Proposals for Policy in the Field - CRP project......................................................................................... 72 3 Migrations and Human Trafficking.................................................................................... 76 Sexual Citizenship .............................................................................................................. 79 EAST EAST COOPERATION CENTER ..................................................................................... 81 The Use of the Ethics of Care Perspective in Social Policy.............................................. 82 The First Regional Seminar on Human Rights Education for Teachers and Activists from SE Europe ........................................................................................................................... 85 Public Policy Round Table Discussion and Workshop (Public Policy and Think Tanks) 88 Participation Opportunities: Perspectives for Inclusion of Marginalized Groups........... 91 Contemporary Citizenship. The Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion II (Is There a Chance for a Post-national Citizenship?) ....................................................................................... 94 CENTER FOR MEDIA POLICY ................................................................................................ 97 Media Watch....................................................................................................................... 98 Media Ownership.............................................................................................................. 104 Minority Media in Slovenia .............................................................................................. 108 Media Policy...................................................................................................................... 112 Self-regulation in the Media ............................................................................................ 116 Public Radio and Television............................................................................................. 119 Journalism Evenings ........................................................................................................ 121 International Collaboration in the Media Field............................................................... 125 The Peace Institute Library.............................................................................................. 129 SPECIAL PROGRAMS..........................................................................................................131 The Peace Institute Fellowship Program 2003.............................................................. 132 4 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL STUDIES 5 Contemporary Citizenship: Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion (Slovenia and the transition states of Central and Eastern Europe) Head of Project Vlasta Jalušič, PhD [email protected] Project Team Simona Zavratnik Zimic, PhD , Milica G. Antić, PhD, Mojca Pajnik, M.A., Roman Kuhar, M.A., Mojca Sušnik Aims and Goals The aim of the project is: 1) to place the contemporary term and concept of citizenship in the context of transition societies of Central and Eastern Europe; 2) to ascertain its significance for political equality, participation and social cohesion; 3) to study certain cases of concepts and practices of citizenship in the states of democratic transition, particularly Slovenia, and compare them to each other; 4) to lay the foundation for change and monitoring of the politics of exclusion in chosen areas. Project duration: July 1, 2001 – June 30, 2004. Content In the period between the 18th and the 30th month of the project, we worked particularly towards the first and the third of the goals mentioned above. We analyzed the policies and mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion, and conducted and published the following case studies on individual public policies and discourses: a study on the policies of exclusion during the formation of Slovene statehood, a study on those exlcuded from the process of granting of Slovene citizenships, a study on the discourse on homosexuality in Slovene media, a study on parliamentary discussions of female quotas in politics. We studied public discussions and legislation, conducted interviews, and analyzed selected public 6 debates, strategic documents and normative guidelines on the national – as well as EU – laws and political practices of greater significance for the status of members of various mentioned groups in Slovenia. This included an analysis of the policies of inclusion in the fields of employment, social security, culture, anti-discrimination legislation and other measures taken by Slovene executive and legislative authorities to insure the inclusion of excluded social groups into the broader society. We compared the situation in the field of such policies in Slovenia to the ones in selected transition, and other, states (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Croatia, Estonia, Rumania, Israel and the Netherlands). To this end, we organized the second international conference on citizenship: Contemporary Citizenship: The Politics of Exclusion II. At the conference we closely examined the issues of post-national citizenship, EU citizenship and other project-related topics. Methods During the fourth and the fifth stage of the project we applied secondary analysis and the comparative method, the analysis of strategic documents and the analysis of discoursive frameworks of policies. We obtained individual case studies from experts in the aforementioned selected states. The Peace Instutute fellowship recipients were included in the project. Events and Activities Debates on the issue of the »erased« during the »Week of the erased« in February of 2003. A meeting with the European Commissioner for Human Rights in May of 2003. International scientific conference: »Contemporary citizenship: the politics of inclusion and exclusion II. Is there a chance for post-national citizenship?«, Dec 4– Dec 6, 2003. Results We published portions of our research in the Intolerance Monitoring Group Report and the Media Watch journal. Substantial portions were published in foreign 7 publications, magazines, books, on our web site, and in the popular press. In 2003, two of the junior researchers